This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...he forms a part. How beautiful is the care which the insects bestow upon their progeny!--how admirable the instinct which teaches them to lay their eggs in those places where the larvae as soon as they come forth are sure to find the most appropriate food! At the beginning of August, when the fruits of the nut-tree are ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 Excerpt: ...he forms a part. How beautiful is the care which the insects bestow upon their progeny!--how admirable the instinct which teaches them to lay their eggs in those places where the larvae as soon as they come forth are sure to find the most appropriate food! At the beginning of August, when the fruits of the nut-tree are still young and tender, the nut-weevil (Balaninus nucum) pierces the soft rind with her long slender snout, deposits her egg in the puncture, and continues this operation until her whole provision is exhausted. The nut, being but slightly injured, continues to grow and ripen for the benefit of the larva, which feeds deliciously upon the kernel in which it is imbedded. When in autumn the nut drops upon the ground, it creeps out of its snug little nursery, and immediately burrows into the earth, where it assumes the pupa state, and in the following summer comes forth as a perfect insect. Another species of rynchophorous insects, the rynchites auratus, seeks the sunny side of an apple, detaches a small piece of the skin, lays an egg in a little hole which it hollows out, and then covers it again so carefully with the detached rind that it is almost impossible to find out the place. The larva does not live upon the fleshy part of the fruit, but bores its way to the kernels; and after having devoured them again pierces the apple, and dropping down undergoes its pupal transformation in the earth. The rynchites betulee divides the borders of the birch-leaves in a most artistical manner, so as to be able to roll them up into a funnel, in which it deposits an egg. At the same time it also partially cuts through the middle rib of the leaf, so as to cause it gradually to wither. When the larva comes forth, it thus finds the dried leaf-substance on which...
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